The members of Class '64, led by Danny Fabito, pose for
their Golden Jubilee photo during the 35th Reunion Convention
at the Wynn Resort in Las Vegas July 9-13, 2014.

Class '61 Cruise #2

United Class '61 members pose for a photo on deck of the Royal Caribbean's Rhapsody of the Seas on their cruise to Alaska September 2012. The photo below shows them on their Class Cruise #2, a two-week sojourn to Indonesia and Malaysia, in January 2015 on board Celebrity's Millennium, the largest cruise ship in Asia. They were joined in by some members of Class '62, '63, and the Carolina Medical Mission team from Raleigh, NC. Some members of United Class '61 were also participants in their respective medical missions before and after the cruise.

FEU-NRMF tops RP
Board Exam - again!

The FEU-NRMF did it again, and again!

Dr. Eleanor de Guzman dela Pena, a recent graduate topped
the February 2011 Philippine medical board examinations,
with a score of 86.33, among the 1230 examinees. Another
alumna, Dr. Noreen Manlapaz Dizon, got the 5th place on
the list of the top ten.

Last year, FEU-NRMF also bagged home the first place in
the February 2010 medical board examination, with Marie-Jo-Ann
B. Cabanting garnering a grade of 85.42. On August 6,
2008, another FEU-NRMF graduate, Marlon Diaz Garcia, topped
the medical board examination, with a rating of 88.75.

FEU Class ’61 made history when it made almost
a clean sweep in the medical board examination, garnering
eight out of the top ten spots in the national medical
board examination that year. Dr. Vicente Verzosa got the
first place with a score of 83.38. UST got the 4th and
8th places. This impressive feat by these FEU alumni has
never been equaled or broken to this day.

Class ’61 members are being honored as Golden Jubilarians
during the 32nd Annual Convention and Reunion of the FEU-DNR-SM
Alumni Foundation on June 15-18, 2011 at the Monte Carlo
Resort in Las Vegas.

Flordeliza M. Baltazar, MD, the sixth dean of the FEU Institute of Medicine for 11 years (from 1993-2004), died on November 2, 2014. She was 90.

Born on October 12, 1924, Dr. Baltazar graduated from the UPCollege of Medicine in 1951. She was elected chairman of the Board of Obstetrics and Gynecology in 1980 and two years later was named Chairman of the OB-Gyn Department at FEU, a position she held for 16 years.

In 1984, Dr. Baltazar assumed the presidency of the Philippine Obstetrical and Gynecological Socity (POGS). In 1986, she won the Jesus B. Nolasco Most Outstanding Faculty in Clinical Category, FEU-NRMF. She was awarded the POGS Baldomero Luz Roxas memorial Award. In 2000, she was recognized as Obstetrician-Gyneocologist of the Year by the International Federation of Obstetrics and Gynecology (FIGO). Dr. Baltazar was named Professor Emeritus in 2003, the same year she was elected President of the prestigious Philippine Medical colleges (APMC). - PSC